Colombian neo-paramilitary groups have extended their influence along the Venezuelan border, engaging in drug trafficking and forging links with local criminal gangs, reported El Espectador Monday. Groups such as Los…
Colombia’s Prosecutor General has come under fire for allegely advising the now-demobilized paramilitary organization AUC in 2005. Maria Isabel Rueda, columnist of El Tiempo newspaper, on Sunday accused prosecutor Viviane Morales…
Wealthy landowners paid paramilitary organization AUC approximately $26,000 for the 1997 massacre of Mapiripan in which an unknown amount of small farmers were killed, an ex-paramilitary commander testified Wednesday. According…
Colombia’s Supreme Court convicted three former Congressmen Wednesday of using the intimidation of right-wing death squads to get voted into office. Former Congressmen Luis Alberto Gil, Alfonso Riaño and Oscar…
Former paramilitary leaders said Monday they have been threatened to prevent them from incriminating emerald magnate Victor Carranza over the businessman’s alleged paramilitary activity. According to Colombian media, demobilized AUC…
Colombia’s former army commander has been asked to respond to allegations that he received over $800,000 from a late paramilitary leader, according to Colombia’s Radio Caracol. Mario Montoya, formerly Colombia’s…
A grenade attack in the southwest of Colombia has left at least ten people injured, local authorities said Monday. According to the authorities, an unknown man threw the fragmentation grenade…
The law regulating the compensation of approximately 4 million victims of Colombia’s armed conflict took effect Monday. The “Victims Law” allows victims of violence committed by left-wing guerrillas, right-wing paramilitaries…
Police in the northwest of Colombia on Sunday killed “Giovanni,” one of the two leaders of “Los Urabeños,” the most powerful neo-paramilitary group in the country.